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Being Fully Persuaded

Faith means being fully persuaded. But having faith and being in faith are two different things. Being fully persuaded means that person lives it. Lives what? Lives “being fully persuaded”.

You see there are people who do not understand faith. Faith is a pretty potent word. Faith is putting your hope, trust, and confidence in something or someone. Faith is being fully persuaded that the thing or person will do, can do, that thing for which you believe by faith, hope, confidence, and trust. People put their faith in so many things. Every time we sit down we put our faith in that chair, that it will hold us up. Some have so much faith in their chairs that they never think about it. They become “fully persuaded” that the chair will hold them; until they find a chair that does not hold them and either breaks or buckles.

There are too many who put their faith in something or someone that will not uphold them when the pressure or weights of life happen. They buckle. They break. They are not able to meet the need. You see, faith in something or someone who cannot comes to no good result. While earnestly believing and applying hope, confidence, and trust but in something or someone who cannot, the faith applied comes to no good result. Faith in something or someone who cannot is faith that will not work; regardless of how earnest or sincere you are.

So, the thing in which you put your faith must be able to deliver. Must be able to deliver on the things for which you are promised. And some are very earnest and very sincere in their beliefs, yet their faith is unfounded. There is no solid base on which their faith can build.

To be fully persuaded and effective in your faith there is a requirement that the thing or person be able to deliver on what you believed or to justify wherein your faith has been placed. If what you have given your faith cannot support you, find out what or who can.

Now me, I am unusual in this regard toward faith. You see, I am fully persuaded. As a pre-teen (about 8 or 9 years old), God introduced Himself to me. I was a kid, and the Lord just showed up. He said “I am Lord, and you are mine.” I remember clearly replying, “You are right.” He directed me to His book, the Judeo-Christian Bible. He said every word in it is true. He said,
“Learn of Me. Know Me”.

I understand and recognize that people believe in a lot of different things, and they do not like or are offended by my faith. I understand, because I have seen a lot of things. I have put to test more than a few things. In all my 50+ years so far, the God of the Bible has trumped everything and everyone. All those other religions – trumped. All those powers and spiritual princes – trumped. The God of the Bible has proven Himself true.

Now for me, being fully persuaded is an achievement, a goal I pursue. I want to walk in, live being fully persuaded, in all that God has for me. Being fully persuaded is life with, in, and surrounded by YHWH Elohim, the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus!